Dr. William Mahrt

William Mahrt teaches musicology at Stanford
University, where he directs the Stanford
Early Music Singers.

His scholarship centers upon the performance
of Medieval and Renaissance music and its relation
to liturgy and to music theory. He has written
on the relation of music and liturgy; music
and poetry in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance;
and on the music of Guillaume de Machaut,
Orlando di Lasso, and Johannes Brahms.
He gives workshops on chant and Renaissance
music around the country.

Dr. Mahrt also directs the St. Ann Choir
in Palo Alto, CA, which regularly sings
Gregorian chant and Renaissance polyphony
in liturgical performance. He is president of
the Church Music Association of America and
editor of its journal Sacred Music, the oldest
continuously-published music journal in the
United States. His book, The Musical Shape
of the Liturgy, was published in 2012.